O Parque do Povo como espaço de disputas de poder e manipulação do grupo político-familiar Cunha Lima em Campina Grande - PB.

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the Parque do Povo as a symbolic space for power disputes and territorial manipulation of the political-family group Cunha Lima, strategically interfering in the imagination of the population of Campina Grande-PB to remain in power. Therefore, the Parque do Povo is configured as an element of the territory, which constitutes a territoriality activated and manipulated for the benefit of the political group in question. Through a bibliographical research on the concept of territory; symbolic power and structures of political-family power, it was possible to consider that the political-family group Cunha Lima created the Parque do Povo, as a symbolic space, for the rise and maintenance of its political power, maintaining the family name for several generations based on in the strategy of culture as a spectacle, arising from events such as: O Maior São João do Mundo; Micarande and the Meeting for Christian Conscience. This became a space for power struggles arising from political-family opposition groups, businessmen and evangelical groups. However, the analysis presented provides reflections on the Parque do Povo as a spatial symbolic form, in which the political-family group Cunha Lima perpetuates power in the city for generations and in various positions in the Brazilian federat ive system.